The Broadway Kevin Bacon

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 2:19pm

So, I'm sure people have played the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game, where you try to connect Kevin Bacon to any person through movies. So I was wondering, who's the Broadway Kevin Bacon? The most prolific actor who's the easiest to connect to people? Anyone want to play a Broadway version of that game where you connect actors?

Let's say I wanted to connect Laura Bell Bundy and Michael Cerveris.

LBB was in Legally Blonde with Richard H. Blake
Richard H. Blake was in The Wedding Singer with Laura Benanti
Laura Benanti was in Gypsy with Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone was in Sweeney Todd with Michael Cerveris

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 2:29pm

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?page=1&thread=984986&boardid=1

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 2:37pm

Well this is different. There's two you have to connect.

[MrSweetNAwful]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 3:16pm

actually, come to think of it, this is a better version of the game than the other thread. I mean, by just going from one actor to the next the game would never end, this would be tricky and fun, and involve more knowledge.

So would you be sticking to one actor a la Bacon or just any two?

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 3:23pm

Let's try two.

Who can connect:

Shuler Hensley and Betty Buckley

No IBDB usage allowed!

[BenKaye]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 3:30pm

Shuler Hensley was in Young Frankenstein with Roger Bart
Roger Bart was in The Producers with Gary Beach
Gary Beach was in La Cage aux Folles with Gavin Creel
Gavin Creel was in Bounce with Howard McGillin
Howard McGillin was in Drood with Betty Buckley

Updated On: 11/23/08 at 03:30 PM

[MrSweetNAwful]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 4:14pm

Hunter Foster to Gene Barry

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 4:23pm

Gene Barry was in La Cage with Walter Charles
Walter Charles was in The Apple Tree with Brian D'Arcy James
Brian D'Arcy James was in Shrek with Sutton Foster
Sutton Foster was in Young Frankenstein with Paul Castree
Paul Castree was in Footloose with Hunter Foster

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 4:25pm

Max Crumm to Dame Judi Dench

Who can do this one?

[being.jeremiah]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 4:48pm

Max Crumm was in Grease with Jenny Powers
Jenny Powers was in Little Women with Sutton Foster
Sutton Foster was in Thoroughly Modern Millie with Christopher Sieber
Christopher Sieber was in Into The Woods with Judi Dench (voice only)

[being.jeremiah]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 4:48pm

Julie Andrews and Karen Olivo

[lilbroadwayme]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 4:49pm

Max Crumm was in Grease with Stephen Buntrock
Stephen Buntrock was in Titanic with Brian D'Arcy James
Brian D'Arcy James is in Shrek with Christopher Sieber
Christopher Sieber was in Into The Woods with the voiceover by Judi Dench

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 4:52pm

Awwww, the ItW voiceover doesn't count.

But as for Andrews/Olivo:

Julie Andrews was in Victor/Victoria with Tony Roberts
Tony Roberts was in Xanadu with Cheyenne Jackson
Cheyenne Jackson was in Damn Yankees (Encores) with Randy Graff
Randy Graff was in Les Miserables with Terrence Mann
Terrence Mann was in Lennon with Mandy Gonzales
Mandy Gonzales was in In the Heights with Karen Olivo

[boyfromoz2]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 5:46pm

Jennifer Holliday and Kiril Kulish

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 5:54pm

Shuler Hensley was in Young Frankenstein with Roger Bart
Roger Bart was in The Producers with Gary Beach
Gary Beach was in La Cage aux Folles with Gavin Creel
Gavin Creel was in Bounce with Howard McGillin
Howard McGillin was in Drood with Betty Buckley

You could have just said Shuler Hensley was in Young Frankenstein with Roger Bart and Roger Bart was in Triumph of Love with Betty Buckley.

[commasplice]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 5:55pm

"Gene Barry was in La Cage with Walter Charles
Walter Charles was in The Apple Tree with Brian D'Arcy James
Brian D'Arcy James was in Shrek with Sutton Foster
Sutton Foster was in Young Frankenstein with Paul Castree
Paul Castree was in Footloose with Hunter Foster"

Or,

Gene Barry was in La Cage with Walter Charles
Walter Charles was in Sweeney Todd with Ken Jennings
Ken Jennings was in Urinetown with Hunter Foster

"Jennifer Holliday and Kiril Kulish"

Jennifer Holliday was in Dreamgirls with Cleavant Derricks
Cleavant Derricks was in Brooklyn with Eden Espinosa
Eden Espinosa was in Wicked with Carole Shelley
Carole Shelley is in Billy Elliot with Kiril Kulish

[MrSweetNAwful]

Posted: 11/24/08 at 6:10pm

Pushing Daisies Stars:
Ellen Greene to Kristin Chenoweth

(actually not too hard, I did it in four steps)